The Voice of Truth

Devotion

8-31-10

The Voice of Truth

John 8:32

“And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

 

As I was thinking about you this morning I wondered how many of you are struggling with feelings of worthlessness.  I wondered if you are facing some tough challenges right now that are making you feel tired, worried, and even withdrawn.  I wondered if you have been told you are no good, that you will not amount to much, or that you have no purpose in this life.

For each of us there are times when our hearts have been broken, we have felt as if no one cares, we might recall the words of someone in our past that hurt us physically or emotionally and as those words come back into our minds we find ourselves dwelling on them and before we know it, we might even believe them. Well, my dear beloved sister and brother, they are all lies.

 

God’s word tells us that we are His children and that He loves us with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:3).  He says that with Him all things are possible (Philippians 4:13) and He says that He will provide all we need (Philippians 4:19). He also wants us to remember that He loved us so much that He died for us (John 3:16). He says He will never leave us or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5).  But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:37-39).

 

So my beloved these are words of TRUTH. Do not believe the lies of the world and the enemy.  God is for you and He will protect you, defend you, provide for you, and give you peace.  Take His word of Truth and dwell on it, Philippians 4:8 tells us to dwell on the good, holy, and honorable and Jesus is all that so dwell on Him.  Colossians 1:3 says: “We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints; because of the HOPE laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously hear in the Word Of Truth, the Gospel, which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in Truth.”

Believe Him not the world.  Take hold of His love for you today with these words I leave you from First John 4:4 “You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.”

 

Father, I pray each one reading this today will know and listen to the voice of truth that will set them free. That they will understand that the Voice of truth is Love and Love’s name is Jesus.  Thank You for the truth of Your love for me and for them that wipes away the lies of the world and the enemy and gives us hope. In Jesus name, Amen